Cave Hotels

We stayed at The Cave Hotel for one night to celebrate our first wedding anniversary. The golf courses are beautiful — I don’t play golf, but I really enjoyed walking around and taking in the views. Unfortunately, the rest of the experience was quite mixed. I was most excited about the spa, but it turned out to be small and dark, more like a space designed for bachelor parties than for a romantic getaway. That bachelor-party vibe actually runs through the whole hotel — stylish, yes, but not exactly relaxing or intimate. Our room looked nice at first glance, but felt a bit worn out — like it had seen one too many parties. The white curtains (facing the panoramic windows) were stained and even damaged, there were marks on the carpet and wooden panels. In a heritage hotel, that might feel charming, but in a “luxury modern” property, it’s disappointing. We showed photos to reception just to make sure they knew it wasn’t us, and while they apologised, nothing was offered in return — which felt underwhelming for this level of hotel. The biggest downside, though, was the noise. You can hear everything — people walking in the corridors, toilets flushing from the rooms above. The bed and mattress were good, but a restful night’s sleep wasn’t really possible. That said, the Firepit Restaurant absolutely redeemed the stay. The food was incredible — honestly, the best meal I’ve had in the UK so far. So, I’d recommend The Cave Hotel for golfers or for groups looking for a fun night out with great food. But as a romantic escape or a luxury spa weekend — it misses the mark.

DO NOT STAY! Me and my Partner stayed at the Cave Hotel for his 27th Birthday. I paid £405.00 for ONE night plus £90.00 for balloons to be put in the room as a surprise (couldn’t fault the balloons). When we first checked in at around 2:40pm we were told our room wouldn’t be ready until 3:00pm which we thought was a bit ridiculous as we had to wait 20 minutes! The lady who was at the front desk was quite rude not welcoming at all and looked down at her nose at us! Literally felt like we were poo on her shoe. We got into the room which smelt horrible. We had to keep the blinds closed as people were walking directly past our windows no privacy at all. When we where about to leave my partner made the bed and noticed the bottom of the duvet cover came off so proceeded to sort it out until he found a massive stain of period blood on the actual duvet! We were utterly disgusted with this as surely you’d replace this! God knows what other stains there was as we couldn’t look as we’d be so disappointed and disgusted knowing we’ve slept in the bed. The pool and saunas, well I say saunas they didn’t work. It was super over crowded and no where to put your things except on the floor. We visited the pool after dinner and we did notice a couple doing things they shouldn’t as it was us and them only in there. We soon got up and left. We had dinner at the Korean cowgirl and please do not go there! We had a £140.00 bill and a £15.00 service charge which we demanded was removed as the service was appalling. We where first offered some water which you’d think was complimentary as she said but we where charged £5.00 for water! I ordered a coke which was £4.50 so how can water be more expensive!!! We ordered the sharing platter for 2, we hardly ate any of it my partner also ordered the loaded tater tots and a rice bowl, I had the smash burger we barely ate anything except the tater tots and a mouthful of the burger which tasted super off so I left half of it. We checked out and we didn’t use anything in the mini bar at all. I was also not told they would take £150.00 on arrival which is just ridiculous. We had breakfast before we left as we drove 4 hours here and had to drive back. Whilst we were driving home we had to pull into the emergency sos breakdown where I threw up. We were stopping at almost every service for 4+ hours as I suffered really bad food poisoning which is from the restaurant as we didn’t eat anywhere else but the Korean cowgirl. My god I wish I read the reviews for that place! I am truly so upset about this experience, especially it being a traumatic experience as I suffer with emetophobia and now feeling super unwell. If I could give this place a 0 I would, we will never return and hopefully people look at the reviews before coming and don’t make the same mistake we did.